MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus 1756-1791[K 492]. Le Nozze di Figaro Dramma Giocoso in Quattro Atti... Prix 48f. [Full score] Paris: Magasin de Musique [PN s566, 1-4], [1806-1809]. 2 volumes. Folio. 19th century quarter mottled calf with marbled boards, Act I: 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (recto table of contents, verso blank), [1] (named cast list), 2-129, [i] (blank); Act II: 186; Act III: 116, [1] (blank); Act IV: [1] (blank), 2-127, [1] (blank) pp. Engraved. Text in Italian and French.Named cast includes Bianchi as Almaviva, Signora Barilli as La Contessa, Signor Barilli as Figaro, Crespi-Bianchi as Susanna, Capra as Cherubino, Tarulli as Bartolo, Sevesti as Marcellina, Zardi as Basilio, Carmanini as Antonio, R*** as Barbarina, and Lupi as Don Curzio. Plate mark to first act "566" with "1" below; to second act "A.2.566," to third act "566.3," and to fourth act "566.4."With somewhat curious early manuscript note laid in relative to the text of Aria no. 10, Non piu andrai farfallone amoroso, stating "Si pongano le sole parole Italiane," but printed text is in both Italian and French to this particular aria, as it is throughout.Binding somewhat worn and scuffed; head and tail of spine frayed and partially lacking. Slightly worn; moderately browned; occasional stains and marginal tears; some signatures split with affected leaves partially detached; small wax stain to p. 79; very small binder's stab holes to upper inner blank margins throughout; 20th century owner's signature in blue ink to upper margin of title. First Edition, first issue, with number "366" at foot of title and printed price of "48f." Fuld p. 353. Hirsch IV, 98. Not in Hoboken. RISM M4339. While Köchel (8) p. 545 cites the first edition as having been published in 1795 by Imbault, there are no known copies of this; it would thus appear to be a "ghost" (a citation for which there is no recorded copy).First performed in Vienna at the Burgtheater on May 1, 1786, with libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte after Beaumarchais. "Figaro is generally agreed to be the most perfect and least problematic of Mozart's great operas... In the great finales of Acts 2 and 4, Mozart reached a level which he could never surpass; indeed, he was hardly to equal the Bb Allegro of the second act finale for its mercurial motivic play and the subsequent Andante in 6/8 for the synchronization of dramatic revelation with the demands of musical form." Julian Ruston in Grove Opera Vol. 3, p. 634.

MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus 1756-1791[K 492] Le Nozze di Figaro Dramma Giocoso in Quattro Atti Prix 48f [Full score] Paris: Magasin de Musique [PN s566, 1-4], 1809. First Edition, first issue, with number "366" at foot of title and printed price of "48f." Fuld p. 353. Hirsch IV, 98. Not in Hoboken. RISM M4339. While Köchel (8) p. 545 cites the first edition as having been published in 1795 by Imbault, there are no known copies of this; it would thus appear to be a "ghost" (a citation for which there is no recorded copy). First performed in Vienna at the Burgtheater on May 1, 1786, with libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte after Beaumarchais. "Figaro is generally agreed to be the most perfect and least problematic of Mozart's great operas... In the great finales of Acts 2 and 4, Mozart reached a level which he could never surpass; indeed, he was hardly to equal the Bb Allegro of the second act finale for its mercurial motivic play and the subsequent Andante in 6/8 for the synchronization of dramatic revelation with the demands of musical form." Julian Ruston in Grove Opera Vol. 3, p. 634.. 2 volumes. Folio. 19th century quarter mottled calf with marbled boards, Act I: 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (recto table of contents, verso blank), [1] (named cast list), 2-129, [i] (blank); Act II: 186; Act III: 116, [1] (blank); Act IV: [1] (blank), 2-127, [1] (blank) pp. Engraved. Text in Italian and French.Named cast includes Bianchi as Almaviva, Signora Barilli as La Contessa, Signor Barilli as Figaro, Crespi-Bianchi as Susanna, Capra as Cherubino, Tarulli as Bartolo, Sevesti as Marcellina, Zardi as Basilio, Carmanini as Antonio, R*** as Barbarina, and Lupi as Don Curzio. Plate mark to first act "566" with "1" below; to second act "A.2.566," to third act "566.3," and to fourth act "566.4."With somewhat curious early manuscript note laid in relative to the text of Aria no. 10, Non piu andrai farfallone amoroso, stating "Si pongano le sole parole Italiane," but printed text is in both Italian and French to this particular aria, as it is throughout.Binding somewhat worn and scuffed; head and tail of spine frayed and partially lacking. Slightly worn; moderately browned; occasional stains and marginal tears; some signatures split with affected leaves partially detached; small wax stain to p. 79; very small binder's stab holes to upper inner blank margins throughout; 20th century owner's signature in blue ink to upper margin of title.

Hayley, William. Blake, William.The Life of George Romney. Chichester: W. Mason, 1809. 4to, (8), (7), 416pp. With portrait frontispiece (imprint trimmed at foot) and 11 engraved plates, including one by William Blake. Old half calf, marbled boards, joints rubbed but sound, top of backstrip chipped away, black label lettered in gilt. First edition. Blake&#x92;s plate of the shipwreck incorporates a number of familiar figures from his iconography and is a strong and vivid illustration. Essick, CBI, XLIX.

[ANONYMOUS].[Convention of Cintra], The Proceedings Upon the Inquiry, Relative to the Armistice and Convention, etc. Made and Concluded in Portugal, in August, 1808, between the Commanders of the British and French Armies. Held at the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, on Monday, the 14th November, and Continued by Adjournments Until Tuesday, the 27th of December, 1808. London: Printed for T. Egerton, 1809. [Peninsular War Inquiry]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[4]; 557 [3]. With two folding tables details men and horses lost in action. Recently re-backed using original blue / grey paper-covered boards, with new vegetable parchment to spine, done to style with boards. Black titles to cream label on spine, with date written by hand in black ink to base of spine. All edges untrimmed.Wear to boards, especially fore-edges. Very good overall, restored to an attractive usable condition. Following the Duke of Wellington's strategic defeat of French forces in Portugal in 1808, his plans for total victory in the Iberian peninsular were cut short by the untimely arrival of senior British Generals, Harry Burrard and Hew Dalrymple, who concluded a swift peace agreement with the French General Junot, allowing his army to retreat back to France with all the valuables they had looted during their occupation of the country in 1807. When the details of this circumstance became known in London it was considered a National disgrace, and all three senior Generals were ordered back to the Capital to face an Inquiry, published here in full the following year.

MONTGOMERY James; GRAHAME James - & - BENGER, EPoems on the Abolition of the Slave Trade First edition. 3 portrait plates and 9 other plates by Raimbach after Robert Smirke. Some marginal staining to fore-edges of most plates and slight marginal damage to fore-edge on one plate. 4to. Contemporary marbled paper boards, backed with straight-grain morocco, spine gilt decorated. Some rubbing. Very good otherwise. (viii) ii (viii), 141pp. London, R. Bowyer,

William Godwin (1756-1836)Essay on Sepulchres: Or, a Proposal for Erecting Some Memorial of the Illustrious Dead in All Ages on the Spot where their Remains Have Been Interred. W. Miller, 1809. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Rebacked. Bound in full calf. Frontis sculpted by Hopwood. M. J. Godwin and Co catalogue to the rear. An essay suggesting that an institution should be set up to create monuments marking the graves of people of note from all over the world, with the scheme starting in Great Britain. That a map should be made of all the memorials. "Mr Godwin [is] by no means ill qualified to write an 'Essay on Sepulchres'; nor have our expectations been disappointed by the perusal. We have found in it many just and natural sentiments forcibly expressed." - The Critical Review, Or Annals of literature. Condition: Very good. Corners bumped with some loss. Pencil inscriptions to the endpapers. Small closed tear to the frontis measuring approx 6mm. Offsetting from the frontis. Scattered foxing to the first and last few pages.

AITKEN, Jane (1764 - 1832)Autographed document signed about binding sets of a bible translation Philadelphia, 1809. unbound. near fine. 1 page, oblong, 4.5 x 7.75 inches, Philadelphia, June 1, 1809 -- a very rare example of Jane Aitken's signature and handwriting, originally sold by Mary Benjamin in 1955 with her original description in brown type: "This is her original bill, rendered to Charles Thomson, Perpetual Secretary of Old Congress, for binding 40 sets of Thomson's translation of the Bible in sheep and one set in calf gilt. Thomson was the first to translate the bible from the Greek in America. This bill is itemized and receipted by Jane Aitken. Also docketed by Charles Thomson . . . VERY RARE AUTOGRAPH." Near fine condition. 1 page, oblong, 4.5 x 7.75 inches, Philadelphia, June 1, 1809 -- a very rare example of Jane Aitken's signature and handwriting, originally sold by Mary Benjamin in 1955 with her original description in brown type: "This is her original bill, rendered to Charles Thomson, Perpetual Secretary of Old Congress, for binding 40 sets of Thomson's translation of the Bible in sheep and one set in calf gilt. Thomson was the first to translate the bible from the Greek in America. This bill is itemized and receipted by Jane Aitken. Also docketed by Charles Thomson . . . VERY RARE AUTOGRAPH." Near fine condition. Early American printer, publisher and bookbinder who, at the age of 18, assisted her father, Robert Aitkin, in publishing the first complete English Bible in America. She inherited her father's business upon his dearth in 1802 but also incurred thousands of dollars of his debt. On at least two occasions she lost her printing presses to a sheriff's sale and once ended up in debtor's prison. Shockingly, despite being a pioneering woman in early American printing, she is largely unheard of in historical records other than her obituary, and to make matters worse, her burial place is assumed to be in the destroyed cemetery of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia.

Lewis, MeriwetherThe Travels of Capts. Lewis and Clark Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, London 1809 - The Travels of Capts. Lewis and Clark by Meriwether Lewis. First edition in a modern buckram binding. Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, London, 1809. Binding is in fine condition. Contents tight and clean but with occasional foxing, more so on pages 160-177. Lacking the map. 5 ¼ x 8 5/8 inches. 309 pages. A very nice copy of a scarce and important work. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #17-221. Price: $1,250. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

EDWARD Augustus, Duke of Kent (1767-1820)Letter signed ("Edward") to architect James Wyatt, concerning repairs and alterations at Kensington Palace, including proposed work on the library Kensington Palace, 1809. 6pp., on 3 sheets of paper, each 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches. Each sheet inlaid at a later date. Renovating Kensington Palace.In this lengthy letter, the father of Queen Victoria consults architect James Wyatt concerning repairs to Kensington Palace. Wyatt had been previously employed by Edward to renovate Castle Hill Lodge, but here discusses proposed improvements at Kensington Palace, which were "in a very dilapidated state, & really disgraceful." Among the needed repairs he requests were the walls of the footman's waiting room, the installation of bookcases and other renovation in the library and changes to the garden room.

[TYLER, ROYALL]The Yankey in London, Being the First Part of a Series of Letters Written by an American Youth, During Nine Months' Residence in the City of London . . . Volume I [all published] New York: Printed and Published by Isaac Riley, 1809, 1809. First edition. BAL 20735; Wright I, 2630; American Bibliography 18799. Title-page torn in the lower and outer margins without loss; considerable foxing and stains; a good, well bound copy.. 12mo, 19th century dark red quarter morocco, marbled paper sides, gilt rules, decorations and lettering. An epistolary fictional account of an American in London, who writes to his friends in New England and comments on national traits, fashions, literature and language, including letters specifically on famous English literary forgers and London booksellers. Tyler succeeded in keeping The Yankey in London anonymous, even apparently from his publishers. See Thomas Tanselle's Royall Tyler (Harvard University Press, 1967), pages 189-205.

Darwin, Charles The Origin of Species. By means of Natural Selection. pp.xxi, 458 with one fold-out plate. 8vo. Neat inscriptions to ffeps. Minor amount of foxing; overall contents very clean and in near fine condition. Original green cloth boards very bright, showing light shelf wear and in thoroughly vg. condition. Very pleasing. Freeman 407. A very pleasing copy of an early issue of what many consider the best edition of Charles Darwin's (1809-1882) revolutionary book. Amendments to the original text of The Origin of Species' were made until the sixth edition of 1876, which became the first issue of the final definitive text' (Freeman).

A LADY THE WIFE OF A NAVAL OFFICER'An account of the celebration of the jubilee, on the 25th October, 1809; being the forty-ninth anniversary of the reign of George the Third, 'The Father of his People'. Collected and published by [a Lady] the Wife of a Naval Officer. Birmingham: printed by R. Jabet Commercial Herald Office: and sold by Longman Hurst Rees and Orme London. n.d 1809 - 4to., with a fine engraved portrait frontispiece, xiv + 203 + (1)pp., entirely uncut, well bound in later 19th century quarter vellum over marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt. A fine copy with the near-contemporary ownership signature of Sophia Williams.> First edition: very scarce. A patriotic gathering up of reports, from numerous towns and villages up and down the country, of the local Jubilee celebrations. These usually took the form of celebratory festivities with food, ale and fireworks, laudatory speeches by local worthies, financial support and appearances by local gentry and nobility, music, dancing and general revelry. There was also, in most cases, a special thought given to the poor, usually involving dinners, and other provisions, plenty of ale, and often money as well. The Account> is set out county by county, with separate reports from each town and village. The report from the village of Blisworth, in Northamptonshire, is perhaps typical of hundreds of others: 'The morning was ushered in with the ringing of bells, a flag was displayed at the top of the church, and a fat sheep roasted whole. A great number of women were provided with cake and tea in the street, and at five o'clock the sheep was distributed among the poor people, with bread and beer, in equal portions to each family. A supper was afterwards provided at the Grafton Arms, where several of the respectable inhabitants assembled, and harmony and convivial mirth crowned the festivity of the day.' The editor gives notice that the 'profits arising from the sale of the work will be given to the Society for the Relief of Prisoners confined for small Debts.' [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

MILTON (John)The Poetical Works of John Milton, With Notes of Various Authors. To which are added Illustrations. And some Account of The Life and Writings of Milton, by the Rev. Henry J. Todd. The Second Edition, with Considerable Additions, and with a Verbal Index to the Whole of Milton's Poetry. In Seven Volumes. London: Printed for J. Johnson. and 23 others 1809 - 7 volumes. Large 8vo, 211 x 128 mms., pp. [vi] xv [xvi blank], 217 [218 - 615 indexes 616 blank]; [iv] v - xix [xx b lank], [3], 4 -462; [vi], [3], 4 - 473 [474 blank]; [vi], [3], 4 - 395 [396 blank];[vi]. [i] ii - xix [xx blank], [5] 6 - 503 [504 blank]; [vi], [3], 4 - 503 - 504 blank]; [vi], [3], 4 - 407 [408 blank, 409 - 342, notes, index, content, engraved portrait of Milton in volume 1, contemporary straight-grain tan morocco, gilt borders on covers, spines richly gilt, green morocco labels; intermittent foxing throughout and some slight wear to binding, but generally a very good and attractive set. In ODNB, D. A. Brunton writes that the publication of Todd's edition of Milton in 1801 was his chef d'oeuvre: "In addition to Todd's own copious annotations and judicious selection from previous commentaries, the work included for the first time extracts from Stillingfleet's projected edition, together with criticism solicited from the family of Thomas and Joseph Warton. Republished on four subsequent occasions, it remained the standard edition for fifty years. The first volume, a thorough biographical study of Milton, revised in 1809 and 1826, was published separately and enjoyed an equal measure of success. For his labours Todd was rewarded with the handsome sum of £200, and his new-found celebrity was acknowledged with his elevation as a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1802." The reviewer in The Monthly Mirror for 1801 lavished praise upon the edition: "In the prosecution of the present undertaking, Mr. T. has displayed an ardour, an assiduity, and a copiousness of resource, which we may confidently affirm that few, if any scholars since the death of Warton, could have combined with equal taste and candour. Hence it is, that our attention becomes so agreeably divided between the text and the commentary, and that our admiration of the poet is heightened by the skill of his illustrator." [Attributes: Hard Cover]

MONTGOMERY, James, James Grahame, E BengerPoems on the Abolition of the Slave Trade. Embellished with Engravings from Pictures Painted by R. Smirke. London. Printed for R. Bowyer, The Proprietor. 1809.. Near Fine. 1809. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book 4to, 29.5cm, the First Edition, [xii],ii,141p., complete with engraved vignette title and plus 9 engraved plate illustrations and 3 engraved portraits (all in engraved borders - complete with tissue guards), in contemporary full calf, wide gilt decorated raised bands, full blind decorations and borders in the panels, gilt titles, elaborate gilt and blind decorated boards on the boards, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers and edges, hinges starting, small chip on the bottom corner of the spine otherwise, some slight foxing on the plates, very good to fine, attractive binding (cgc) - Includes Montgomery's The West Indies, Grahame's Africa Delivered and Benger's A Poem, Occasioned by the Abolition of the Slave Trade in 1806. The engravings, after paintings by Robert Smirke, include some now-famous images of slavery and show Negroes hiding from slave ships, being driven from their homes, at work, conversing with whites, being delivered from their fate by the blessings of Albion etc., The portraits are of leading abolitionists Granville Sharp, Thomas Clarkson and William Wilberforce. - Sabin 50145. .

BRADBURY, John.:TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF AMERICA, IN THE YEARS 1809, 1810, AND 1811; Including a Description of Upper Louisiana, Together with the States of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Tennesse, with the Illinois and Western Territories. London, Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1819, 1809. SECOND EDITION 1819. 8vo, approximately 225 x 140 mm, 9 x 5½ inches, FOLDING ENGRAVED MAP AS FRONTISPIECE, pages: xiv, [17]-346, bound in original publisher's boards, printed paper label to spine, edges untrimmed. Spine rubbed and worn with loss, tips of corners worn, heavy spotting to pages 305-320, all text legible, slight offset from map to title page, map has some pale browning, 4 pages have age-browning, endpapers have pale age-browning, occasional pale foxing, a few edges slightly browned, an occasional small nick to margins, text mostly clean, otherwise a very good copy in original binding. This edition was the first to have the folding engraved map. Bradbury came to America and spent much time in the St. Louis area. Accompanied by another English botanist, Thomas Nuttall, he joined Wilson Hunt's party on the first leg of the journey up the Missouri, stopping near the Mandan villages. He met John Coulter at the beginning of the trip and relates Coulter's escape from the Blackfoot Indians. See: A Dictionary of Books relating to America, by John Sabin, Volume 1, 7207. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Ackermann, RudolphA COLLECTION OF PLATES AND FABRIC SAMPLES FROM ACKERMANN'S REPOSITORY OF ARTS 1809-1811 , 1809-1811. 1809-1811. First Edition. Octavo; 3/4 Morroco binding over green cloth boards; Spine has 5 raised bands and gilt lettering and design; Some slight wear and rubbing to the boards, especially along the edges; Spine slightly fading; Upper edge gilt; Pages toned; 73 "fashion" plates and 35 sample pages taken from Ackermann's Repository of Arts from the years 1809-1911 and bound together; All fashion plates are beautifully colored and preserved (see photos); Also Includes 35 "sample" pages from the same years. Each page has 4 different fabric samples from the era tipped-in.Ackermann's Repository of Arts was an illustrated British periodical published from 1809-1829 by Rudolph Ackermann that covered arts, literature, commerce, fashion, and politics, and had great influence on English taste in fashion, architecture, and literature. A one-of-a-kind item;DD Consignment. Shelved in Case # 10. Dupont.

NATTES J.C.Versailles, Paris, and Saint Denis; 1809 - or a Series of Views made from Drawings made on the Spot. illustrative of the Capital of France, and the surrounding places with an historical and descriptive account.First edition. 40 hand-coloured aquatint plates. Folio. Fine twentieth-century olive green half morocco, marbled boards. [ii], 86, [2](list of plates, verso blank)pp. London, Originally issued in parts, this book, like much of Nattes's work, provides a marvellous insight into the topography and social history of the early nineteenth century, prior to the industrialisation of the Victorian era. In particular Versailles. gives the reader a glimpse of the medieval city of Paris, much of which was destroyed by Baron Haussmann on Napoleon III's behalf in the 1860s. John Claude Nattes (c1765-1835), a founder member of the Society of Painters in Water Colours, was a topographical draughtsman and watercolour artist, who although principally based in London travelled extensively throughout Great Britain and Europe. His contemporary, the landscape painter Joseph Farington recorded in his diary in 1787 that Nattes was a Frenchman, and records show that he returned to his native land in 1822, where his last known address was in St. Germain. Involved in many of the important events in the art world during his life time Nattes was one of a group of prominent artists who in 1801 were invited to participate in the first experiment in England using the new process of lithography. He went on with nine fellow artists to found the Society of Painters in Water Colours in 1804, the first exhibition for which proved a huge success, with more than 12,000 people paying a shilling for admission. Some three years later however he was expelled from the Old Watercolour Society for exhibiting other people's work as his own, however this doesn't seem to have greatly affected his career. The plates are titled thus: Entrance to Versailles; Orangerie, Versailles; Staircase leading to the Chapel; Chateau du Grand Trianon; Fontaine des Lions; La Tour de Marlbrough; Salle à Manger; Le Bourdoir; Pavillion de Lucienne; Great Walk, St. Cloud; Water Engine, St. Cloud; Bridge of Neulli, Paris; Do. Bagatelle, Environs de Paris; Fire Engine, Paris; Square and Bridge of la Concorde; The Louvre &c. Paris; Church of St. Germain, Paris; Mint; St. Michael's Bridge; Le Lavoir de l'Hotel Dieu; Pont l'Hotel Dieu; Pont l'Hotel Dieu, dit St. charles; Pont notre Dame; L'Hotel Dieu with the Church of Notre Dame; L'Ile de St. Louis; Pont de Gévré; Pont Marie; Julian's Bath; Aqueduct at Arcueil; College Navarre; Halle aux Blés; Interior of the Chatelet; Temple; Foss of the Bastile; Mill of Charenton; Castle of Vincennes; St. Denis; Interior of St. Denis; Burial Place of ditto; Rousseau's Cottage. Abbey (Travel), 103; cf. Tooley, 342 (with the French text). [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

SAINT-SAËNS, Camille.Autograph letter, written and signed in pencil].[Paris,] Sunday, [1860s-1870s]. 2 pp. of a folded leaf (22.5 x 17.5 cm). - Ring, Psychological perspective on Camille Saint-Saëns, pp. 24-25; Studd, Saint-Saëns: a critical biography, pp. 36-37. Autograph letter by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns, in which he invites a friend to dinner. Throughout the 1860s and early 1870s Saint-Saëns led a bachelor's existence and shared a large apartment with his mother Françoise-Clémence (1809-1888). On Monday evening the composer and his mother often hosted famous soirées which were attended by numerous composers and musicians. In the letter Saint-Saëns writes that he is instructed by his mother to invite the recipient for dinner on Monday (tomorrow), to make up for the bad dinner of last week.Camille Sint-Saëns (1835-1921) was a French composer of the Romantic era. In 1858 he became organist of La Madeleine, the official church of the French Empire, and in 1861 piano teacher at the École de musique classique et réligieuse. There he conceived his best known piece, Carnival of the animals, which he only finished in 1886. In the years in between he wrote numerous works including the Danse macabre, the opera Samson and Delilah and the Organ Symphony.In excellent condition.

Tomlins, Sir Thomas Edlyne; Jacob, GilesThe Law-Dictionary, Defining and Interpreting the Terms or Words 1809. London, 1809. 2 vols.. London, 1809. 2 vols. The "Best Edition" of Jacob's Dictionary (Says Marvin) Tomlins, Sir Thomas Edlyne [1762-1841]. [Jacob, Giles (1686-1744)]. The Law-Dictionary, Defining and Interpreting the Terms or Words of Art, and Explaining the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the English Law; Defining or Interpreting the Terms or Words of Art; and Comprising Copious Information on the Subjects of Law, Trade, and Government. With Considerable Additions. London: Printed by Andrew Strahan, 1809. Two volumes. Unpaginated. Main text in parallel columns. Quarto (10" x 8-1/4"). Contemporary calf, blind fillets to boards, blind fillets and lettering pieces to spines. Light rubbing and some minor nicks and scuffs to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities, some chipping, gatoring and minor scuffs to spines, front boards beginning to separate, but secure, corners bumped and somewhat worn, later owner bookplate of William Paine Sheffield to front pastedowns. Moderate toning to text, light foxing in places, gift inscription (to Sheffield) to front endleaf of Volume I, small early owner signature to head of title pages. $600. * Second Tomlins edition. Jacob's venerable dictionary was first published in 1729 and is considered by many to be his masterpiece, one that "constituted an entirely new departure in legal literature" (Cowley). Tomlin's edition, first published in 1797, is a substantial enlargement and revision. According to Marvin, this edition is the best one. Cowley, A Bibliography of Abridgments, Digest, Dictionaries and Indexes to the Year 1800 xci. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 2:183. Marvin, Legal Bibliography 418.

PRINT. WOODWARD, George Moutard.The Kentish Hop Merchant and the Lecturer on Optics!! T. Tegg. [1809] - Hand-coloured etching by Isaac Cruikshank after Woodward. A nice bright copy with good margins. 26.5 x 42cm. George BM Satires 11470 recording two copies, one with ?103? in upper right corner as in this copy, the other without. ?The lecturer leans on a table, lit by four candles, to address a small well-dressed audience, seated on chairs. On the table are a telescope and a magic-lantern. He says: ?Ladies & Gentlemen? I have the honor for the first time in this county of Kent to deliver a Lectur on Optic&apos;s? A fat elderly man rises from his chair to say: ?I humbly ax pardon Sir ?but before you get on furder, I rises with all due difference to inform you as how in this country we do not call them Hop sticks but Hop poles? The others, more sophisticated, are amused, while the hop-merchant&apos;s son, standing behind, registers anguish. A dog, with ?Hop Mer .? on its collar, watches the lecturer.? PLEASE NOTE: For customers within the UK and the EU, this item is subject to VAT.

Tomlins, Sir Thomas Edlyne; Jacob, GilesThe Law-Dictionary, Defining and Interpreting the Terms or Words... 1809. London, 1809. 2 vols. The "Best Edition" of Jacob's Dictionary (Says Marvin) Tomlins, Sir Thomas Edlyne [1762-1841]. [Jacob, Giles (1686-1744)]. The Law-Dictionary, Defining and Interpreting the Terms or Words of Art, and Explaining the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the English Law; Defining or Interpreting the Terms or Words of Art; and Comprising Copious Information on the Subjects of Law, Trade, and Government. With Considerable Additions. London: Printed by Andrew Strahan, 1809. Two volumes. Unpaginated. Main text in parallel columns. Quarto (10" x 8-1/4"). Contemporary calf, blind fillets to boards, blind fillets and lettering pieces to spines. Light rubbing and some minor nicks and scuffs to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities, some chipping, gatoring and minor scuffs to spines, front boards beginning to separate, but secure, corners bumped and somewhat worn, later owner bookplate of William Paine Sheffield to front pastedowns. Moderate toning to text, light foxing in places, gift inscription (to Sheffield) to front endleaf of Volume I, small early owner signature to head of title pages. $600. * Second Tomlins edition. Jacob's venerable dictionary was first published in 1729 and is considered by many to be his masterpiece, one that "constituted an entirely new departure in legal literature" (Cowley). Tomlin's edition, first published in 1797, is a substantial enlargement and revision. According to Marvin, this edition is the best one. Cowley, A Bibliography of Abridgments, Digest, Dictionaries and Indexes to the Year 1800 xci. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 2:183. Marvin, Legal Bibliography 418.

SAINT-SAËNS, Camille [Autograph letter, written and signed in pencil].[Paris,] Sunday, [1860s-1870s]. 2 pp. of a folded leaf (22.5 x 17.5 cm). Ring, Psychological perspective on Camille Saint-Saëns, pp. 24-25; Studd, Saint-Saëns: a critical biography, pp. 36-37. Autograph letter by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns, in which he invites a friend to dinner. Throughout the 1860s and early 1870s Saint-Saëns led a bachelor's existence and shared a large apartment with his mother Françoise-Clémence (1809-1888). On Monday evening the composer and his mother often hosted famous soirées which were attended by numerous composers and musicians. In the letter Saint-Saëns writes that he is instructed by his mother to invite the recipient for dinner on Monday (tomorrow), to make up for the bad dinner of last week.Camille Sint-Saëns (1835-1921) was a French composer of the Romantic era. In 1858 he became organist of La Madeleine, the official church of the French Empire, and in 1861 piano teacher at the École de musique classique et réligieuse. There he conceived his best known piece, Carnival of the animals , which he only finished in 1886. In the years in between he wrote numerous works including the Danse macabre , the opera Samson and Delilah and the Organ Symphony .In excellent condition.